Maritime history

In England no town is more than 170 kilometers from the sea.
In Britain has a very important history of ships and the sea.
In Liverpool there is a great museum of maritime history.
Ships like this one- the Cutty Sark at Greenwich in London-brought tea from India to Britain.It was a very profitable trade and made many people very rich.

Between 1830 and 1930 more than nine million people from all over Europe left from the port of Liverpool to start a new life in America or Australia.
The most famous ship was probably the Titanic. It sank in 1912 and over 1.500 people drowned.You probably know about it from one of the most expensive films ever made-Titanic.

One of the most famous shipping companies is Cunard. It's got the world's biggest to cruise ship, The Queen Mary 2, Which crosses the Atlantic from Southampton to New York.
The majority of people do travel around the world by plane but ships are still very important for movie goods.
These metal boxes, or containers, are packed withs clothes, television sets, computers, furniter and toys.
Here at the Southampton Container Terminal they unload more than one and a half million containers each year.